Braves sign free-agent LHP Ross Detwiler
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That's perplexing. I don't get it.
That seems quite strange. Why cut Carpenter?
Braves1976
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Stupid IMO, Carpenter had some issues in Colorado but Colorado isn't a place to judge any of our pitchers. He only had one bad outing too.
You have to remember this is the same organization that thought Eric Young was a starter and had Bethancourt batting fifth when the season began. After the extension of Fredi my patience with this team is getting thin.
dak
Well-known member
Yeah, I was pretty stumped about all these machinations a few minutes ago, as they didn't add up. But just saw that Ryan Kelly is back up.
So for those keeping score, here are the 25-man moves since the break:
Up: Frasor, Detwiler, Terd, Kelly
Down: Folty, Grilli, Brigham, Carpenter
They tried to see if they could get any value out of EY. And hitting Bethancourt 5th was something Bobby would have done too to try and give CB early confidence. Kind of like Bobby continuing to hit Kelly 3rd when he got called up after starting 0-25 I think it was.
Kelly was a highly thought of hitter. Bethancourt is a 9 hitter in AAA. Big difference.
NinersSBChamps
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Didn't Detwiller own the Braves while he was on the Nats?
There were some less than highly thought of hitters too that Bobby threw right in the fire, and I'm not talking hitting 7th or 8th in the lineup.
GovClintonTyree
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In 2006, Tim Hudson had a 4.86 ERA in over 200 innings, by far his worst year. He gave up an .850 OPS to lefties. They murdered him. His change was his out pitch against lefties, and despite the fact that the guy throws 7-8 pitches, he needs the change against lefties.
I had decided he was overstriding, which was leaving his change up 2-3 inches and causing his slider to frisbee a little bit, because of his armslot giving him so little margin for error.
I don't know if I was right, but the next year he had regained the bite on the slider and more importantly, the change was tumbling down to lefties' shoetops again and he continued his borderline HOF career.
In 2012 (and I assume before) Detweiler got righties out with his sinker. He had over 50% gB rate with the pitch, not much hard contact, a lot of swings outside the strike zone. Hitters hit .231 against his sinker. Last 2 1/2, they've hit .300+ against his sinker and righties are killing it. Of course this year, he can't get anybody out with anything.
Roger (I understand) is more about thinking and psychology than mechanics, but he certainly knows how to get guys out with a sinker. Might know how to throw it, too.
Detwiler looked like he would be a damn good pitcher for a while. This is the kind of guy Roger can fix, I think. I like this flyer.
jpx7
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zitothebrave
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I remember gilesfan slobbing his knob a few years ago.
None of them even remotely close to as bad as Bethancourt